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Skriven 2014-10-22 21:15:42 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 18325 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
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Hi Nancy,

 NB>  NB>>> He had no choice.  ;)  I think Grandmother made an effort to
 NB>  NB>>> give some stability despite all the moves, though...  :)
 NB>  RH>> Good for her! She sounds like she was quite a remarkable lady.
 NB>  NB>> She was.  She was, indeed.   :)

 RH> I've forgotten, did you ever meet her?

 NB> Yes, and got to know her pretty well..  She's the one that was in the
 NB> nursing home at the end, regressing to babyhood....  Before she
 NB> started that, though, she was one of my most trusted confidantes...
 NB> :)

And you miss her, don't you?

 NB> politician in  RH>> the family as I knew a good bit about the
 NB> gubenatorial election. (G)  NB>> And she said, no, but her dad works
 NB> at the newspaper...?  ;)

 RH> Just a "no" probably but Dad used to buy the NY Times every day so I
 RH> grew up with a major daily paper in the house. I'd read parts of it

 NB> Ah, that would explain things too... :)

He stopped buying it only a relatively few years ago, when the price
went up too much for him.


 RH> too; that's probably why I still like to subscribe to a local daily
 RH> (print copy please) newspaper. I'll read on line if the carrier can't
 RH> get thru but prefer the paper paper.

 NB> I prefer the paper paper, too... but got soured on our local when they
 NB> started putting most of the content online, and then raised the
price NB> of the paper subscription to reflect all the bonuses (unusable
by me) NB> of NB> the online...  If they'd had a reduced price for paper
 only, or even NB> not raised it, I'd probably still be getting it.

The Raleigh paper is pushing their electronic editions more too. I'm not
giving in yet--I still like the paper. The other day they showed a
picture of one of the huge pumpkins at the state fair going on the
scale; the winner was over 1,000 pounds. Lots of potential pies but I
wouldn't want one from a pumpkin that big.


 NB> as we know it or not? (G)  NB>> Yeah...   something like that...  :)
 NB> And no need to rile people by  NB>> disagreeing openly on things when
 NB> it's not going to matter really.

 RH> I've bit my tongue on a number of occaisions. (G)

 NB> Yup... and I refer to "hamburger tongue" for those occasions when one
 NB> has to bite hard and often...  (G)

Good choice of words, I'll have to remember that.


 NB>  RH>> Could be, and thinking of the money to be made by selling it as
 NB> a  RH>> diet food. (G)
 NB>  NB>> Apparently enough gets sold that they figure it's a viable
 NB> product...

 RH> I guess so; I'll buy the reduced fat cream cheese from time to time
 RH> but never the fat free. I might have made the mistake once, but not
 RH> repeated it.

 NB> Some of us have taste...  ;)  Obviously there are enough that don't...
 NB> ;)

True, especially when it comes to seeing words like "diet", "light",
"low (whatever)" and so on. They see those words, think the product is
good for them, and buy it, regardless of actual taste. Why waste money
on food that doesn't taste good when all you have to do is eat a smaller
portion of something that tastes good?

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Ruth
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